Performance Analysis for FMCW Ranging Using Photon-Counting Detectors

Baris I. Erkmen; Jason R. Dahl; Zeb W. Barber

doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2013.CTu1H.7

CLEO: 2013
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2013),
paper CTu1H.7
•https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2013.CTu1H.7

Performance Analysis for FMCW Ranging Using Photon-Counting Detectors

Baris I. Erkmen, Jason R. Dahl, and Zeb W. Barber

CLEO: Science and Innovations 2013

San Jose, California United States
9–14 June 2013
ISBN: 978-1-55752-972-5

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B. I. Erkmen, J. R. Dahl, and Z. W. Barber, "Performance Analysis for FMCW Ranging Using Photon-Counting Detectors," in CLEO: 2013, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2013), paper CTu1H.7.

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Abstract

We analyze the performance of FMCW ranging with photon-counting detectors. We derive the Cramér-Rao bound, then determine the optimal fraction of signal-arm photons, given a fixed mean number of source-generated photons.

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